Free Dead Wrong: Straight Facts on the Country's Most Controversial Cover-Ups by Richard Belzer, David Wayne

gesturing to the empty pill container on her night- stand. But, as Clemmons quickly noted, how would she have swallowed all the pills they said she had when there was nothing in the room to swallow them with? There was no water glass or anything sufficient. So, how did she swallow them? When Clemmons pointed this out to her doctors, they were feeble, lost for answers, and helped Clemmons search the room for a drinking glass. None was found. To further confound anyone who had actually been trying to swallow something, their search revealed that the bathroom water had even been turned off for some remodeling work (there was nothing to drink from in the bathroom either).
Sgt. Clemmons, first officer on the scene, was certain that there was no glass or bottle with which Marilyn would have been able to swallow the pills. Later, and just in time for the police photos, an empty glass is present in Marilyn’s bedroom. Sgt. Clemmons was adamant, however, that it was not there initially; as he had searched.
11. When Sgt. Clemmons asked how they first knew that something was wrong, Eunice, the housekeeper answered that it was around midnight when she had gotten up to go the bathroom and she then noticed under Marilyn’s bedroom door that the light was still on and the door was locked.
In their initial story to police, the witnesses (including two doc- tors) placed Marilyn’s time of death at slightly before 12:30 AM (the time they said that they found her). But professionals are able to easily determine a clear time window of death by observing the specific stage of rigor mortis. Rigor (stiffening of the muscles) begins about three to four hours after death and is in full effect at about twelve hours. Mortician Guy Hock ett arrived at Marilyn’s home at 5:40 AM. He inspected the body, and, based on the level of rigor mortis, determined a time window for her death of 9:30 to 11:30 PM. That concurs with what we now know about exactly when her “handlers” were informed. We know that Mari lyn actually was dead prior to 10:00 PM. because shortly after 10:00, her lead publicist, Arthur Jacobs, was urgently interrupted, at a concert, with the message “Come with us right now please, Mr. Jacobs—Marilyn Monroe is dead.”
12. In their initial story (which all three witnesses later changed at the exact same time), the housekeeper and the two doctors stated that Marilyn had locked herself in her bedroom. So, to gain access, Dr. Greenson had gone outside and smashed the window open with a fireplace poker. Sgt. Clemmons noted, however, that If her doctor had only smashed through the window from the outside to get in, the shards of glass would have only fallen inside the room, not outside where he also saw some of the glass shards.
13. The housekeeper was doing the laundry at 4:30 AM while her employer lay dead in the bedroom. Both the washer and dryer were running and the housekeeper was folding clean laundry and nervously fidgeting with it as she did so. Several loads were being done, so he knew she’d been at it for hours:
“She had already washed one complete load and was doing a second. A third load of linens had been folded and put on a counter.”
14. The housekeeper related her story in a very even and precise manner as though her statements had been very rehearsed and prepared.
15. It was very disturbing that witnesses stated the body was found at 12:30 AM, but the police were not called until 4:25 AM. Moreover, the explanations of what transpired during that four-hour gap were feeble and vague. Finally, Sgt. Clemmons asked the doctors directly: “What were you doing for four hours?” “Talking,” they responded. “For four hours? What were you talking about for four hours?” They shook their heads, no verbal response.
As established above, the actual time of death was prior to 10:00 PM, making it actually a gap of at least six and a half hours that she was dead, before the police were finally called.
16. Why were the